In an AMA (ask me anything) session with Tom's Hardware community, AMD desktop processor marketing exec Don Woligrosky answered a variety of AMD Ryzen platform related questions. He did not shy away from making a key comment about the company's upcoming high-end graphics card, Radeon Vega, either. "Vega performance compared to the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti and the Titan Xp looks really nice," Woligrosky stated. This implies that Radeon Vega is in the same league of performance as NVIDIA's two top consumer graphics SKUs, the $650 GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, and the $1,200 TITAN Xp.

It is conceivable that AMD's desktop processor marketing execs will have access to some privileged information from other product divisions, and so if true, this makes NVIDIA's recent memory speed bump for the GTX 1080 a failed gambit. NVIDIA similarly bumped memory speeds of the GTX 1060 6 GB to make it more competitive against the Radeon RX 580. Woligrosky also commented on a more plausible topic, of the royalty-free AMD FreeSync becoming the dominant adaptive v-sync technology, far outselling NVIDIA G-Sync.

The Ryzen 5 1600 (non-X) is virtually unchallenged in terms of value among enthusiasts processors. However, we've yet to determine the next best option for those who can't afford to spend $220 on AMD's six-core champion. For $170, the quad-core AMD Ryzen 5 1400 may appears to be a great alternative.

Corsair's K95 Platinum recasts the company's most macro-friendly keyboard with fancier lighting, new media controls, and a handy new profile-switching key, among other improvements. We locked and loaded with the K95 Platinum to see whether it's the king of the keyboard hill.

When Champ Chairs offered us a chance to test the COUGAR Armor gaming chair, I couldn’t say no. Literally, my body wouldn’t allow it. COUGAR is well known to gamers for their keyboard and mouse peripherals, but they also rock my favorite color on their products: orange. It looks great (to me), but how does it feel after extended gaming?

FSP looks to break into the cooling market with their brand new Windale 6 CPU cooler. Featuring a 240 W TDP rating this sleek black tower cooler certainly looks the part. The question is can it stand out in an increasingly crowded market.

Legit Reviews took a quick look at the new AMD Ryzen Balanced plan a couple weeks ago, and we did see a performance increase in a couple of games. We decided to expand the testing to fourteen games and 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme putting the AMD Ryzen 7 1700X against the Intel Core i7-7700k. Read on to see how it turned out!

From a stock performance perspective, the MSI GTX 1080 Ti Armor 11G is a beast of a card. It over delivers its rated boost clock speed by a wide margin in pretty much every game and load that I tested with. This allows it to deliver exceptional performance metrics in each and every game. I mean, the NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti FE was a great card in its own right, but MSI takes that baseline and expands on it to drive performance a little bit further. You cannot argue with the FPS performance delivered by this card. However, as an aftermarket partner built, factory overclocked card that is the expectation. At stock speeds, there is no doubt that this card is the top performer in every test. When overclocked, the margins get a bit tighter and the GTX 1080 Ti FE does outperform the MSI Armor in a few tests, but just barely.

The N2810 Pro from Thecus uses an Intel Celeron N3160 Quad-Core CPU, which offers sufficient computing power for entry level users who are on a tight budget. It also supports high-speed transfers using two Gigabit Ethernet interfaces and comes with HDMI as well as DisplayPort connectivity.